The massage process

This week in Fundamentals of Massage we will consider the massage process. This will be the main focus of your online learning this week.

Estimated completion time: 9 hours.

1. You are to work through the online learning module - the massage process, explore the reading material and answer the questions.
   
   
2. Apply the ideas in the massage process module to your massages this week. Ask yourself what am I doing well? and what could I do better?
   
   
3. Elluminate session Monday 1-2pm
   a) Record Keeping for massage
   b) Fundamentals assessment
   
   
4. Design and create your own client details form.
   
   
5. Elluminate session Thursday 10-11am
   Discussion of the massage process
   

Introduction to fundamentals

The purpose of the Fundamentals of Massage course is to provide you with a theoretical framework within which to practice relaxation massage.

It is a fairly broad course. Over the semester we will cover

• The massage process (Week 10)
  
• Record keeping for massage (Week 10)
  
• Safe massage practice (including hygiene, contraindications and endangerment sites) (Week 11)
  
• The effects of massage (Weeks 13-14)
  
• Legal requirements relevant to massage practice (Week 18)
  
• Ethical considerations relevant to massage practice (Week 20 - 21)
  
• Sustainability and massage practice (Week 21)
  
• The historical development of massage practice (Week 23)
  
• Divergent cultural and philosophical approaches to massage practice (Week 24)
  
• Contemporary massage (Week 24)
  

Here is the Fundamentals of massage course page.

The Effects of Massage Strokes

This week we will be taking a deeper look at the physiological effects of massage strokes.


Task 1: Read the relevant sections pertaining to the effects of massage strokes in Mosby's chapter 9. There is a brief overview on page 293 followed by more specific effects of each stroke from pages 312-328.

Task 2: A recording of Wednesdays elluminate session can be viewed here.

Sustainable Massage Practice 2

The question for this week is

“What could be done to make massage practice more sustainable?”

Task 1: Dedicate one hour to considering this question.

• Consider the inputs and outputs of massage practice
  (products, waste, time, money, psycho-emotional effects)
  
  
• Your notes on the massage process might help to trigger your thinking
  
  

Task 2: Discuss this topic with your classmates and lecturer

An elluminate session was held on Wednesday the 18th of June. Here is the recording.

Sustainable Massage Practice

Over the next two weeks, you will explore sustainability as it relates to massage practice.

Here are your tasks for this week....

Task 1 - Exploring sustainability
Complete this learning module

Task 2 - Sustainability Strands.
After reading through the Exploring sustainability learning module, you should visit the Google document - Sustainability Strands - and add one action, one product and one service that would enhance each type of sustainability.

Task 3 - Assessment
Task 6 will be emailed out to you shortly.

Task 4 - Introducing Massage New Zealand
David, as the acting MNZ representative for the Lower South Island will talk about MNZ, and why you should become a member of our professional organisation. This will be via an Elluminate session

Wednesday 4 June @ 8pm.
The session has been recorded. Click here to view it.

Ethical Considerations of Massage

Week starting May 26

The focus this week is on the ethics of massage and why they are important. I have created a google document with a brief description of common ethical consderations associated with massage, your task this week is to read this document and add your thoughts on why each point is valid to massage. You may use examples, real or hypothetical, to help illustrate your answers.
Feel free to add any other ethical considerations which are not listed.


Activities for this week:

Add your thoughts to the google document Ethical Considerations of Massage

Legislative Context of Massage

Week starting May 19

Update: For the link to wikieducator document outlined below click here.

This week we are looking at the legal issues that concern massage. I will be posting a link to a wikieducator page as soon as I have that (my apologies for not having is ready now, I'm still learning how to use wikieducator!), I want you to read through this document and think about how aspects of it may effect you in a massage practice.


There will be a short elluminate session on Wednesday 21st at 8pm. You can join this session here.

If you have not yet posted to last weeks google document please do so as the rest of your class are relying on your info. It is disappointing that many of you still have not completed this simple task.

Activities for this week

• Read legalities document before Wednesdays elluminate session.
  
• Elluminate session wednesday 8pm.
• Complete your groups assigned task from last week. Post here.